Eula Marie Juenemann
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June 8, 1927 - July 15, 2023
Eula Marie Juenemann, daughter of Guy and Irma (Carswell) Geisenhener was born on June 8, 1927 on the family farm ten miles north of Rexford, Kansas in Decatur County. She passed away on July 15, 2023 at Prairie Senior Living in Colby, Kansas at the age of 96.
After graduating from Decatur County High School in May 1945, Eula started nurse's training in June 1945 at Halstead Hospital, Halstead, Kansas under the government’s Nurse Cadet Program. She graduated, passed her state boards and became a registered nurse in 1948. During her 41-year nursing career she worked as a staff nurse at hospitals in McCook, Nebraska, Hoxie, and Oberlin, Kansas; as Director of Nursing at Lantern Park Manor, Colby, Kansas; as a home health nurse at Decatur Community Health Department; and from 1976-1989 she served as the administrator of the Decatur County Health Department. In 1989 Eula was honored by the Kansas Health Care Association as Employee of the Year. She retired in 1989.
On February 19, 1948, Eula was united in marriage to Bernard (Ben) Juenemann at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Selden, Kansas. She admitted to having a crush on “Bennie” in grade school and they began dating after he returned home from serving in the Navy during WWII. They lived on farms in Sheridan and Decatur Counties until moving to Oberlin in 1985.
In retirement Eula was very active with volunteering; church activities including traveling to Costa Rica for two weeks at a time for five consecutive years to help build a church; hobbies--- her favorite being quilting by hand; and traveling the United States and foreign countries. She often said she thought she might be part gypsy. She was a member of the Selden and Oberlin Sacred Heart Churches.
Eula was preceded in death by her infant daughter, Dora Ann, her parents, her husband, Ben, and two sisters, Glenda Blair and Cleta Riepl.
She is survived by a daughter, Irma Mottley and husband Terry of Suffork, Virgina; two sons, Fred and wife Lesa of Brewster and David and wife Joyce of Selden; her sister, Marjorie Rorie and husband Wayne of Albuquerque, New Mexico; nine grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.
Mass of Christian burial will be Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 10:30 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Selden. Visitation will be on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 from 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Pauls Funeral Home, Oberlin. Family will receive guests from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. with a rosary at 7:00 p.m. Burial will be in Hawkeye Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made out to the Sacred Heart Catholic Church of Oberlin or Selden.
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